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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS
Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/26/25
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Violet Wood-sorrel |
Firewheel |
Field Marigold |
Ticksweed, with fly |
Grass and another plant |
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Mississippi Aquarium, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/25/25
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Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog |
Wild Discus |
Shrimp |
Shark |
Phantasmal Poison Dart Frog |
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Mystery fish, maybe a shark |
Same fish |
Porkfish (lower righthand corner) |
Forcipiger wanai |
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Guitarfish |
Mystery fish |
Mystery fish |
Mystery fish |
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Epaulette Shark |
Eel |
Clownfish |
Blue Tang |
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Blue Spotted Ribbontail Ray |
Blue Poison Dart Frog |
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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/25/25
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Northern Mockingbird |
Violet Wood-sorrel |
Common Starling |
Broad-headed Sharpshooter |
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Not dandelions |
Live Oak catkins |
Crane's-bill Geraniums |
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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/24/25
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Willet |
Terns |
Snowy Egret |
Snowy Egret |
Snowy Egret |
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Snowy Egret |
Sanderlings and a couple of Dunlins |
Sanderlings |
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Sanderlings and Dunlins |
Preening Sanderling |
Sanderling |
Same Sanderling |
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Ruddy Turnstone |
Royal Terns |
Royal Terns and a Laughing Gull |
Royal Terns and Laughing Gulls
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Royal Terns and Laughing Gull |
Royal Terns and Laughing Gulls |
Royal Tern landing |
Royal Tern about to dive |
Another Royal Tern about to dive |
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Marbled Godwit |
Same Marbled Godwit |
Laughing Gulls' chorus, with two bystanders |
Laughing Gulls' chorus, with just one bystander |
Forster's Tern, about to dive |
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Forster's Tern |
Forster's Tern |
Large dead fish |
Dunlins and a few Sanderlings |
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Cranes at the port |
Black Skimmers |
Black Skimmers |
Black Skimmer, with beak open |
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Black-bellied Plover |
Black-bellied Plover |
Black-bellied Plover |
Black-bellied Plover |
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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/23/25
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Common Vetch |
Evening Primrose |
Virginia Spiderwort |
Seen from the plane |
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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/17/22
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American Coots |
Black Skimmers, Royal Terns, Ring-billed Gulls, and Forster's Gulls |
Black Skimmers and flying Royal Terns |
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Royal Terns and a Forster's Gull |
Black Skimmers, Forster's Gulls, and a flying Royal Tern |
Dune Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris) |
Great Blue Heron, Royal Terns, and Forster's Gulls |
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Great Blue Heron with Royal Terns and Forster's Terns |
Great Blue Heron |
Juvie Great Blue Heron |
Gulf Fritillary |
Marbled Godwit |
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Same Marbled Godwit |
Probably a non-breeding Black-bellied Plover |
Royal Tern |
Forster's Gulls, Royal Terns, and American Coots |
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Royal Terns and Black Skimmers |
Ruddy Turnstone |
Same Ruddy Turnstone |
Sanderling |
Semi-palmated Plover |
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Short-billed Dowitcher |
Same Short-billed Dowitcher |
Trailing Fuzzybean (Strophostyles helvola) |
Willet |
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Mississippi Aquarium, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/16/22
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Dolphin |
Another dolphin |
Nicobar Pigeon |
Fish in school |
Same fish |
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Fish |
Lapwing |
Pretend mermaid |
Ray |
Another ray |
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Scarlet Ibis |
Turaco |
White Ibis with a cataract |
White shark |
Same white shark |
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Same white shark |
Same white shark |
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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/16/22
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Beach Morning Glory (Ipomoea imperati) |
Another Beach Morning Glory (Ipomoea imperati) |
Creeping Indigo (Indigofera spicata) |
Mural on Highway 90 |
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Eastern Bluebirds, two males and a female |
Two other Eastern Bluebirds |
An intersection in an interesting part of town |
Long-tailed Skipper on Lantana |
Another Long-tailed Skipper on Lantana |
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Northern Mockingbird |
Sea Slater (Ligia oceanica) |
Sneezeweed |
Trailing Fuzzybean (Strophostyles helvola), at the beach |
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Waveland, Hancock County, MS 10/15/22
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Arrowleaf Sida (Sida rhombifolia) |
Aster (Symphyotrichum genus) |
Male Blue Dasher |
Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) |
Mystery clover |
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Frog |
Male Green Darner |
Post-mating Green Darner pair; the male clamps onto the female's head with his terminal appendages |
Another post-mating Green Darner pair |
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Little Yellow (Eurema lisa) |
Same Little Yellow (Eurema lisa) |
Nakedstem Dewflower (Murdannia nudiflora) |
Nodding Spurge (Euphorbia nutans) |
Another Nodding Spurge (Euphorbia nutans) |
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Pyralid moth |
Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae) |
Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae) |
Seedbox (larger than the ones in North Carolina) |
Sneezeweed |
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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/15/22
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Dune Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris) |
Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) |
Mostly Firewheels (including seedheads) and a few Dune Camphorweeds |
Sawtooth Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora) |
Sawtooth Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora) |
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Great Blue Heron |
Same Great Blue Heron |
Gulf Fritillary |
Long-tailed Skipper |
Airplane |
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Semi-palmated Plover |
Snowy Egret |
Same Snowy Egret |
Sunset |
Palm fruits |
Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/14/22
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Military jet |
Bidens alba |
Black Skimmer |
Black Skimmers, Ring-billed Gulls, Brown Pelicans |
Male Green Darner |
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Dune Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris) |
Great Blue Heron |
Probably a juvie Great Blue Heron |
Probably a juvie Great Blue Heron |
Marbled Godwit |
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Military aircraft with ejections |
Same military aircraft |
Palm Warbler |
Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae) |
Royal Tern |
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Ruddy Turnstone |
Trailing Fuzzybean (Strophostyles helvola), at the beach |
Variegated Meadowhawk |
Virginia Spiderwort |
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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 10/13/22
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Airliner about to fly over our hotel |
Same airliner, but with landing gear out |
Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) seedhead |
Checkered skipper |
Common Buckeye |
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Gulf Fritillary |
Same Gulf Fritillary |
Military helicopter |
Military helicopters |
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Little Yellow |
Velvetbean Caterpillar Moth |
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10/20/19
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Nonbreeding Black-bellied Plover |
Black Skimmers and Royal Terns flying |
Same birds, more spread out |
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Black Skimmers, one splashing |
A few Black Skimmers on sand bar |
Many Black Skimmers on sand bar |
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Fish bone |
Creeping Indigo (Indigofera spicata). |
Creeping Indigo (Indigofera spicata) |
Hermit crab |
Royal Tern in flight |
Snowy Egret |
10/19/19
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Ruddy Turnstone |
Shoreline facing west |
Snowy Egret |
White-winged Dove |
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Wildflowers |
Might be a Marbled Godwit |
View of an elusive bird |
Lanceleaf Fogfruit |
More Lanceleaf Fogfruit |
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Jellyfish in the Gulf of Mexico |
Same jellyfish |
Railroad Vine |
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10/17/19
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Non-breeding Black-bellied Plover |
Another Black-bellied Plover |
Black-bellied Plover pair |
Bird tracks |
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Black Skimmers early in the morning |
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Black Skimmers around noon |
More Black Skimmers |
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Brown Pelicans |
A small Crape Myrtle |
Another small Crape Myrtle |
Dune Camphorweed |
Goldenrod |
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Goldenrod |
Great Blue Heron |
Same Great Blue Heron |
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Same Great Blue Heron |
Same Great Blue Heron |
Texas Lantana (Lantana urticoides), growing wild in a field |
Marbled Godwit |
Another Marbled Godwit |
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Monarch |
Wild Poinsettia |
Another Wild Poinsettia |
Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae) |
Sanderling and two Semipalmated Plovers |
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Sanderling |
Another Sanderling |
Sanderling asserting his area |
Several squabbling Sanderlings |
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Semipalmated Plover |
Another Semipalmated Plover |
Same Semipalmated Plover with another |
Aster seedheads, probably of the Dune Camphorweed |
Spider flowers. Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk. |
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Wildflowers |
Willet |
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10/16/17
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Great Blue Heron |
Horseshoe crab |
Killdeer |
Same Killdeer |
Marbled Godwit |
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Marbled Godwit |
Semi-palmated Plover |
Same Semi-palmated Plover |
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10/15/17
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Ruddy Turnstone |
Marbled Godwits and other birds, maybe Willets |
Juvie Brown Pelican |
Dog |
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Black Skimmers |
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10/14/17
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Common Buckeye |
Gulf Fritillary |
Same Gulf Fritillary |
Lilies |
Little Yellow |
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Long-tailed Skipper |
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10/13/17
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Semi-palmated Plover |
Ruddy Turnstone |
Marbled Godwit |
Lobster/crayfish skeleton? |
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Great Blue Heron |
Great Blue Heron |
Black Skimmers |
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10/12/17
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American Snout (at the beach) |
Drooping Jersey Lily |
Black Skimmer |
Black Skimmer |
Common Starlings |
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Black Skimmers and gulls in the process of moving to a new spot on the beach |
Mostly Black Skimmers |
Black Skimmers and gulls |
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Cloudless Sulphur on a Turk's Cap |
Great Blue Heron and gulls |
Gulf Fritillary |
Another Gulf Fritillary on a Turk's Cap |
Gulf Fritillary |
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Long-tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus) |
Gulls and Marbled Godwit |
Plover? |
Semi-palmated Plover |
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Snowy Egret flushing out at least four and maybe six fish |
Same Snowy Egret flushing out three fish |
Flying terns |
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Terns, Black Skimmer, gulls and a a large bird that looks like a Black Skimmer/gull hybrid |
Terns and a few Black Skimmers moving |
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Verbena on grass median |
White Winged Dove |
10/11/17
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Huge cargo ship headed for the port |
Scarlet-bodied Wasp Moth (Cosmosoma myrodora), which had flown inside |
Gulf Fritillary on a Firewheel flower |
Gulf Fritillary on asters |
Gulf Fritillary on another Firewheel |
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White Pelicans, which never returned after this evening |
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10/18/15
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Common Buckeye |
Willet |
Mole cricket nymph, rescued
from street |
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10/18/15
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Killdeer |
Diving Forster's Tern |
Ruddy Turnstone |
Gulf Fritillary |
Forster's Tern |
10/17/15
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Sunrise |
Blue Jay |
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Jones Park 10/16/15
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The marina, with a lighthouse with ladder access |
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10/15/15
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Black Skimmers |
Black Skimmers on a sand
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Hermit crab |
Sanderling |
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Royal Terns, a Black
Skimmer and a gull |
Some local color |
Felix
at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center |
Post-mating Common Green Darner pair |
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10/15/15
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Sunset |
Forster's Terns |
Gull |
Black Skimmer |
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Variegated Meadowhawk |
Black Skimmers and
Bonaparte's Gulls against Biloxi backdrop |
Black Skimmers flying over
the ocean |
Black Skimmers disturbed on
the beach: a man with a dog walked through the middle of them. |
Black Skimmers resting on
the beach |
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False Garlic |
Great Blue Heron |
Ribbons |
Little Yellow |
Verbena |
10/20/13
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Plant bug
(Polymerus basalis). ID thanks to Yurika Alexander. |
Moonflower
(Ipomea alba) |
Cuban Brown Anole |
Sunset scene |
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Jersey Lilies |
Jersey Lilies |
Sanderling |
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10/17/13
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Black Skimmer |
Black Skimmers flying |
Willet,
plover and Sanderling. Plover may be nonbreeding
Black-bellied. |
Forster's Tern |
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Sanderlings |
Trailing
Wild Bean flowers |
Trailing
Wild Bean showing bean pod |
Another pea
family plant |
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Hermit crab |
Common Buckeye, but a very fast flyer |
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10/17/10
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Black Skimmer in
flight, with unequal upper and lower bill sizes clearly visible |
Black Skimmers,
Royal Terns and gulls |
Black Skimmers and other birds |
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Black Skimmer in
flight, with tail feathers clearly visible |
Big bird
footprint, with large feather for size comparison |
Maybe the bird
that made the big footprint. Definitely not a Great Blue Heron. |
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10/16/10
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Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole) |
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10/15/10
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Black Skimmer
flying over gulls |
Black Skimmer
doing "skimming," i.e., scooping prey from the water with its lower beak |
Skimming by
another Black Skimmer |
Semipalmated Plover |
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10/14/10
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Black Skimmers in
flight |
Gulfport sunset |
Group of Black Skimmers flying |
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